Midwest

Maybe not a centralized metropolitan zone but the Heartland of America is a massive area worthy of note.

I usually have a mustache, and I almost always have some sort of lazy patch beard but I obviously just shaved it all. It feels very strange. I greatly enjoy beards of all kinds, and I greatly enjoy the idea of beard-based competition. I just got married, and sometimes, for fun, I refer to my wife as my beard. I usually laugh. So that makes me think it must be funny.
Hopefully I see some really cocky beards in this contest. Or at least some really boastful ones.